Racial and ethnic problems when it comes to health and health care interventions is one health disparity. In the health care system the lack of proper data on race and ethnicity has become a problem in the quality of care. Self reported data can take years and requires changes to an already complex infrastructure. However some health plans and hospitals started collecting their own race/ethnicity data and have detected disparities. This has seriously delayed the developement of interventions. Information is not properly obtained, therefore there is no…
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Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Culturally Competent Service Delivery Systems in Primary Health Care Settings. (2007, January 1). Retrieved February 15, 2015, from…
Health care providers can overcome differing points of view regarding health promotion and disease prevention by valuing and respecting others choices and practices. Staying culturally educated will help to ease any doubts health care providers may have. According to Stanton, n.d.) “Differences in age or occupation, or whether a person is from a rural, suburban or urban background, may affect the expectations of nurses and their patients.” Unless a particular health regimen is harmful to the patient we must allow them to practice…
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A study by UCLA of Spitak victims found that PTSD was more common in Armenians who carried two particular genetic abnormalities associated with depression (Healey, 2012). The study showed that women were likelier than men to experience PTSD, along with older people, people who had lost family members, and people who had experienced a traumatic even before the earthquake hit…
This article focused on evidenced based practices and of cultural competence as an issue of for discussion. The articles discusses this is as it applies to it implication in working with individual of color. The article gives us insight as to the complementary nature of cultural competence and evidenced based practices. The articles argues that there is a need to produce culturally competent interventions in the move from efficacy research to effectiveness studies. The article discusses intervention that have been empirically research…
The presence of cultural competence in the health care system and what it means for the health of our diverse population, is something that should be part of the schooling for healthcare providers. Cultural Competence in the health care system is described as the ability to tend to the needs of patients through understanding their linguistic and cultural differences. Our vast, diverse population in the United States makes cultural competence in health care imperative. Without it, we cannot provide other cultures with the effective and comforting health care they need and deserve. In order for culturally diverse people to receive the proper health care they need, health care practitioners must be well versed in other cultures. Their ability…
Over the past 20 years a significant social movement in America has amplified public awareness toward the promotion of health and disease prevention, known as Healthy People 2000 and 2010. It has been beneficial in changing the focus of health care from a reactive standpoint to a proactive one, which endorses national health and prevention of disease (Edelmam & Mandle, 2010). However delivery of health care objectives is not enough. Health providers must recognize and incorporate cultural group patterns, and variations within that culture to provide optimal care that promotes wellness (Lipson & Dibble, 2008).…
My father’s parents were born in a small village in the Peloponnese. They were kind and humble people that eventually made their way to Athens. My mother’s parents were born in Kafkaso, a town in Minor Asia, which at that time belonged to Greece. With the war of 1921, the Turks forced my mother’s parents to flee to Athens. They were wealthy and proud, as were many Pontian Greeks at that time. Both of my parents were born in Athens in the fifties. My mother left Athens in 1969, America bound and my father followed soon after.…
Intervention theory is a term that is used in social policy and social studies that refer to the decision making on problems of intervening effectively in a situation to secure desired outcomes. Effective intervention always ensures that desired outcomes are got whenever there is a social policy problem or a legal problem. The implementation of the effective intervention is a process of assuring that they key aspects of the promising approaches is put into practice as intended to meet local needs. A group that is involved in the process of implementing the effective intervention should prioritize and implement intervention strategies based on what have been learned from experience and research in the community…
Cultural competence in health care is the ability of providers and health care systems to integrate and deliver highest quality of care regardless of race and culture background. Individual values about health are shaped by their race and socioeconomic status. In order to improve patient and provider interactions they should recruit minority staff, training on cultural awareness, and knowledge about different cultures in their geographic area. These changes will take time but it will build patient trust with their provider and promote high quality health care.…
If your loved one is suffering from addiction, it can be easy to feel despair at ever finding them help. That's when an intervention becomes absolutely essential, as they can help your loved one face their addiction and get the help they need to recover.…
Although poverty takes a big part of it but this does not mean that health care organizations are also responsible in that they often fail to provide culturally competent health care. To provide better services, the writers believe that clinics and hospitals should give out cultural competence self test to patients, so doctors can identify areas in which they need to improve the quality of their services to culturally diverse…